“America’s moms are absolutely horrified that the U.S. Department of Justice intends to drop its efforts to block an Idaho law that puts the health and lives of pregnant people facing medical emergencies in peril. In doing so, the Trump administration is sacrificing the health, fertility, and even the lives of moms and pregnant people to its anti-abortion extremism.

“Of all the horrors SCOTUS unleashed with its appalling, dangerous, massively unpopular ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the threat that pregnant people – most of whom are moms – will be denied emergency medical care is among the worst. Idaho’s cruel, dangerous abortion ban prohibits abortions necessary to protect a patient’s health, threatening doctors with prison time and loss of their medical license if they perform an abortion the state later decides violated its law. As a result, pregnant Idaho patients facing dire medical emergencies have had to be airlifted to other states for emergency care. Idaho’s law is in direct conflict with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act — a longstanding federal law that requires any hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid funds to provide stabilizing care to patients facing medical emergencies.

“If the Trump administration’s decision to walk away from this case results in Idaho’s abortion ban being reinstated, emergency rooms will deny urgently needed care to moms and others facing serious pregnancy complications that destroy their health, end their fertility, and in some cases may take their lives. America’s moms will continue to fight for our health, safety, and access to the medical care we need.”